Law : Gender & the Law

The book assesses the impact that feminism has had upon family law and examines specific areas of family law from a feminist perspective. It is broad in scope and looks at issues of current legal and political preoccupation. more...

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Reveals how a number of quite different women engaged with ideas of gender and legal professionalism at the turn of the twentieth century. By situating women's claims for admission to the bar within this context in different jurisdictions, this study examines the intersection of historical ideas about gender and about legal professionalism. more...

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Argues that feminism must return to the universal and reconstruct the theory and practice of human rights. This work offers discourse ethics and its post-metaphysical defence of universalism as a key to this process of reconstruction. The implications of discourse ethics and the possibility of reclaiming universalism are also explored. more...

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This book looks at how legal discourse is constructed to place homosexuality in a very specific band of regulation and focuses on gay and civil rights, equality under the law and social attitudes towards homosexuals. more...

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Contributing to debates on feminism, this book considers the impact made by feminists in India from the 1970s. Geetanjali Gangoli analyses campaigns on issues of violence and women’s rights, and debates on ways in which feminist legal debates may be limiting for women and based on exclusionary concepts such as citizenship, and sets them within a wider analysis of the position of women within the Indian state. more...

Price: $99.95